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Word: neighborly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stealing that pretty little evergreen from a neighbor's backyard and setting it up as a Christmas tree in your living room is a dirty trick. But some enterprising Coloradans are striking back at would-be tree snatchers with a pungent recipe: fox urine, a drop or two of skunk essence and glandular extracts from cats, ferrets or muskrats. Sprayed on evergreens, the Scrooge Christmas Tree Protector, at $6 per pt., raises a stink to warn off tree rustlers. If a "Scrooged" tree is moved into a heated house, the putrid perfume gets really intense. How long before the scent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas: Eau de Skunk For Thieves | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Director Bruce Beresford's tone is cool and shadowy -- like Miss Daisy's fine old house. Hoke is introduced into it by her son Boolie (Dan Aykroyd, displaying full credentials as an actor), when at 72 Miss Daisy careers her car into a neighbor's yard. She has objections, suspicions. She harbors -- yes -- more racial prejudice than she has ever been forced to admit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Time and the River | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Responding to complaints by neighborhood residents over persistent noise from Greenough Hall, University officials reminded the dorm's occupants of Harvard's "good neighbor" policy in a mandatory meeting Thursday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greenough Meeting Warns Frosh of Noise | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...They told us not to taunt anyone," said Aretha D. Davis '93, adding that students were informed that they could personally be implicated in a suit, if a neighbor were to file...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greenough Meeting Warns Frosh of Noise | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

Holdt recalls an incident last spring that reinforced her sense of how separate Harvard and its high school neighbor are. During a party at Adams House, a fight broke out between Harvard students and Rindge and Latin students. The Harvard police, she says, arrested only the Rindge and Latin students...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Town & Gown at the School Next Door | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

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